By offering audits and program evaluations, both equally assess an organization’s actions and results to an established code, standards, or parameters. Transparency also provides government agencies and public administrators to operate with integrity and carry out policy goals efficiently and effectively. Audits and Program Evaluations
Program evaluations and audits within terms of their purpose relate to accountability on many levels. Both ensure that government agencies and public administrators operate with integrity and carry out policy goals efficiently and effectively. This paper will exhibit one type of audit and one type of program evaluation for Center for Independent Living in Central Florida, Inc. This paper will also consider how the audit and program evaluation are similar and different by: describing the audit and program evaluation selected; comparing the audit and the program evaluation for Center for Independent Living in Central Florida, Inc. and a …show more content…
The type of audit selected for this assignment is a compliance audit in which it offers financial information to measure the short- and long-term health of the organization. For CIL, this type of audit gives insight into the organization’s financial data, 990 forms, an audited financial statement, letter of determination, board members as well as officer, director and/or highest paid employee data. On the other hand, CIL offers an ex post facto evaluation process for their 6 main programs to where they are evaluated on programs/operations after they have been completed and has relevance when the nature of an activity is on going (Shafritz,